Kirkton House, Drummuir is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. House. 5 related planning applications.

Kirkton House, Drummuir

WRENN ID
fading-beam-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Kirkton House, Drummuir, AB55 5JE
OS grid reference
NJ 374 440
Coordinates
57.48218, -3.04451
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kirkton House in Drummuir is likely a mid-18th century building that may include elements from an earlier structure. The house is two stories tall and has five bays, with various 19th century additions at the rear and a single-storey, single-bay addition at the north gable. Its front is made of tooled squared granite, while the sides are constructed from harl pointed rubble. The dressings are made of tooled sandstone ashlar and contrasting tooled granite ashlar.

The central entrance is round-headed and features a Gibbsian blocked surround, with single round-headed moulded windows on either side. The window and door dressings appear to be earlier and reused. On the first floor, there are five narrow windows that are linked by contrasting dark granite cill and lintel bands, each with keystone detailing above the lintels. Each gable has a small attic window, and the south gable is flanked by a continuous two-storey, two-bay addition that forms the garden front. This addition has irregular fenestration and a projecting three-light rectangular window on the ground floor, topped with a crenellated wallhead. There is also a further two-storey rear wing.

The ground floor front windows feature multi-pane glazing, while the first floor windows have four panes. All front windows are fitted with four external shutter hooks, and there is varied glazing elsewhere. The house has coped end and ridge stacks, and its roofs are covered with slate.

Inside, the building was damaged by fire in the 19th century and has since been altered and modernised.

Local climate

Kirkton House, Drummuir sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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